Constructivism

SREs like BAG

Mary Ann Smith presented at ASMCUE 2022 a microbrew session entitled “Too long for a CURE: Building a Semester of Short-term Research Experiences (SREs) for Microbiology.” Smith is at Penn State Schuylkill and has earned two MAs and an MBA. They used slido.com for polls during their session, starting with “Have you incorporated a CURE […]
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SciComm Projects and CLIPS

Jaclyn A. Madden, Associate Professor at Hartford Community College, was the speaker at ASMCUE 2022 for the microbrew entitled “Undergraduates as Science Communicators: How to Engage Students in SciComm.” Jackie Madden teaches biotechnology. Madden defined “SciComm” as how scientists explain science to non-scientists. Effective SciComm requires letting go of technical jargon and benefits students as […]
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Connect for Virtual Labs

McGraw Hill Education was one of the exhibitors at ASMCUE 2022. I watched the recording of their live twenty-minute session tonight. Tammy Lorince was the presenter and is an instructor and lab coordinator at the University of Arkansas. They were developing an online microbiology course with lecture and lab with the University of Arkansas Global […]
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Tinkercad for Environmental Microbiology

Tonight I watched the ASMCUE 2022 microbrew “3D Printing to Observe Bacterial Interactions.” The speaker was Nik Stasulli, an Assistant Professor at the University of New Haven. This session was about creating 3D structures to examine bacterial interactions due to chemical secretions. Stasulli started the semester by having groups create Winogradsky columns and isolating bacteria. […]
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Labster Pre-labs and Safety

Dr. Manuela Tripepi, an Assistant Professor at Thomas Jefferson University, presented at ASMCUE 2022 about the use of laboratory simulations as pre-lab activities. This microbrew entitled “Using Laboratory Simulations as Pre-lab Activity” was an overview of how Tripepi used Labster videos during the pandemic in unique ways. Tripepi asked: do students learn and read the […]
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T-cell Receptors and Student Engagement with a New ImmunoReach Activity

The ImmunoReach RCN has been very active! Tonight I watched their ASMCUE 2022 microbrew entitled: ImmunoReach: An interactive approach to understanding T-cell receptor diversity. Claudette Davis from LaGuardia Community College – CUNY and Timothy Paustian from the University of Wisconsin-Madison presented. Davis is a (newly) Associate Professor and spoke about the students at LaGuardia. They […]
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Incorporating the Virtual Tools into the In-Person Courses

The Microbrew from ASMCUE 2022 that I watched tonight was titled “When Plan B Becomes Plan A; Incorporating Content Created Virtually into In-person Classes.” Heather Townsend and Sarah Shoemaker were the presenters. They both have decades of experience teaching and wanted to reflect on how to use content created during “the virtual year” and incorporated […]
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Instructor Perceptions of Race, Racism, and Racial Equity

Tonight I watched the ASMCUE 2022 Microbrew: Instructor Perceptions of Race, Racism, and Racial Equity Discussion in Introductory Biology. This session was a twenty-four-minute live session, and I watched the recording. The presenter was Dr. Candice Idlebird from Harris-State University, an Assistant Professor. The abstract cited guidance for making biology classrooms more inclusive including the Drewsbury & […]
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Connecting Science and the Public with Concept Mapping

It has been a long day! I’m on my way to an ASK BIO workshop in Denver. While waiting for the train I watched another ASMCUE microbrew by a former UNC SPIRE fellow now at Appalachian State. The title was Science in the News Activity for Introductory Majors. The activity is structured and repeated several […]
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BioRender Figures for Studying, Graphical Abstracts, and a Visual Glossary

I started watching the live (now recorded) ASMCUE 2022 sessions. I started with a microbrew entitled: “Utilizing BioRender in the Classroom for the Visualization of Scientific Concepts” since I am using BioRender more and more now. Sally R. Chamberland from Springfield College teaches several biology, microbiology, and genetics courses and uses BioRender. They spoke about […]
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